Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1954)

WASHINGTON (D. C.) area awards in BAB's "Radio Gets Results Derby" for 1953 are presented at Washington Ad Club Radio Day luncheon by William E. Coyle (c), WAC pres. L to r: Charles Amatucci, v. p., Tom's Auto Service, Silver Spring, Md.; Ernest Tannen, v.p., WGAY Silver Spring; Mr. Coyle; Clayton R. Sanders, adv. dir.. Peoples Drug Stores; H. M. Paris, gen. sis. mgr., WWDC Washington. NEW NORGE is shown by Neale E. Parsons (I), Norge sis. mgr., to Paul Flanagan (c) of WTRY Troy, N. Y., and Raymond J. Kinley, mgr., W. A. Case & Son Mfg. Co. Norge distributor signed for Musical Yearbook on WTRY. LUCKY LAGER Brewing Co. signs largest sports contract yet secured by KYA San Francisco. L to r: Pat Hernon, sportscaster; Marion Walker (standing), S. F. Lucky distributor; Jess Watson, Lucky central div. sis. mgr., and Ken Hildebrandt, KYA gen. sis. mgr. COCA-COLA Bottling Co. of Oregon signs heavy spot campaign on KGW Portland. Arranging the contract: Jackson Gitchell (I), KGW slsmn., and Dale Alexander, Coca-Cola dist. mgr. FILM To Film Eclipse CBS-TV newsfilm last week announced plans to film the June 30 total eclipse of the sun at a site in Minneapolis. The unit is organizing a photographic expedition, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society, to record this phenomenon. CBS-TV Newsfilm plans to use a variety of lenses to capture the different views of the eclipse more clearly than is possible with the unaided eye. The photographic report of the eclipse will be flown to New York for initial showing June 30 on CBS-TV's Douglas Edwards with the News (Mon.-Fri., 7:30-7:45 p.m. EDT). FILM SALES United Television Programs Inc., Hollywood, according to Wynn Nathan, vice president in charge of sales, have recorded the following sales: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger to XETV (TV) Tijuana and KGMB-TV Honolulu, both 26 weeks; Look Photoquiz to WATV (TV) Newark, N. J. (American Stores), 26 weeks; Lone Wolf to KJEO-TV Fresno, Calif., and WKY-TV Oklahoma City, both 52 weeks; Heart of the City to WSJS-TV Winston-Salem, N. C. (Kroger Co. food chain), for 26 weeks; The Ruggles to WTRI (TV) Schenectady, 26 weeks; Royal Playhouse to WTRI (TV) and WMT-TV Cedar Rapids, 26 weeks, and Old American Barn Dance to WTSK (TV) Knoxville, Tenn., 26 weeks. Walter M. Lowney Co., Montreal (candy), purchases ABC Film Syndication's Racket Squad, tv film series for showing on CBOT (TV) Ottawa, CHCH-TV Hamilton, CBLT (TV) Toronto, CKCO-TV Kitchener and CFPL-TV London, Ont. Agency: Foster Adv., Toronto. WCPO-TV Cincinnati has acquired multiple-run rights to more than 60 hours of film from Louis Weiss & Co., L. A. Package includes 52 western features, 15 cartoons and Jim and Judy in TeleLand, 39-episode animated cartoon series. WBBM-TV Chicago has leased two-run rights to the 26-episode Craig Kennedy Criminologist, half-hour film series from Ben Barry, the distribution firm's Chicago representative. FILM DISTRIBUTION TeeVee Co., Beverly Hills, has re-acquired U. S. distribution rights to The Adventures of Gigi and Jock, 13 half-hour puppet tv films produced in Paris by G. P. Ditisheim. Series, distributed by TeeVee until about three years ago at which time rights reverted to M. Ditisheim, will be available for programming May 23. FILM PRODUCTION Hal Roach Jr., Productions, Culver City, is completing the pilot films in four of his scheduled tv film series. Bozo the Clown, for Capitol Records, stars Gil Lamb with Jeri Lou James, eight-year-old regular on NBC-TV Dennis Day Show, in the role of Amy. Hollin^sworth Morse is director. Code 3 features Ted De Corsia as the only continuing actor in the series with Don Siegel set as director. Being produced for syndication by ABC are Alias Mike Hercules and // Seems Like Yesterday. The former, set in San Francisco, stars Hugh Beaumont with Budd Boetticher directing. Hal Roach Studios Inc., Culver City, has completed a one-minute $ 1 1 ,000 film for Max Factor & Co., Hollywood (cosmetics). Commercial uses live action and a chorus of dancers. Emerson Yorke is filming the life stories of 26 leading baseball players, the production to be released nationally as a 26-week tv series in 1955. Baseball Comr. Ford Frick is sanctioning the series, will personally study the script content for authenticity and pass on the desirability of the sponsor. Agency: Pearson Adv. Inc., N. Y. Animated Productions, N. Y., has completed 45-second tv filmed commercial for Ames-Bell Co., N. Y., on firm's Coupettes, plastic containers shaped like sherbet glasses. The film, which is being prepared "open end," will be offered to dairy companies for sponsorship by them in their respective markets. Princeton Film Center, Princeton, N. J., announced that production will begin shortly on a new half-hour filmed tv dramatic series titled State Trooper. It will be produced in cooperation with the New Jersey State Police. Five Star Productions, Hollywood, is preparing three cartoon and live action tv commercials for Los Angeles Community Chest. With Del Sharbutt as the voice of "Red Feather," spots are not designed to raise funds but to thank viewers for contributions and explain how the money is being spent in 164 services in L. A. RANDOM SHOTS Broadcast Information Bureau, New York, has issued the third edition of its "Directory of Free Tv Film," covering public relations film offered by large and small advertisers. It runs 416 pages, with an index of sources of 32 pages. Pathe Laboratories, Hollywood, has completed installation of a new optical department for servicing 16 mm and 35 mm films in both color and black-and-white. Al C. Ward, Hollywood tv writer-producer, has obtained exclusive tv film rights to special agents' files from Assn. of American Railroads, upon which he will base a semi-documentary tv film series. Material dating back to the 1800's will be used with a different cast for each episode. King Horton Productions, Hollywood, has acquired all rights to "Tailspin Tommy," syndicated comic strip. A tv film version of the air adventure series is being planned by Mr. Horton. Academy Film Productions Inc., Chicago, is distributing free a film editing and timing chart to film executives. The chart provides information on number of words and pace for announcers and corresponding feet of 16 and 35 mm film for any given number of seconds. Firm is accepting requests written on company letterheads to Bernard Howard, Academy Film Productions Inc., 123 W. Chestnut St., Chicago 10. 111. FILM PEOPLE Z. Wayne Griffin, motion picture producer and formerly radio writer-producer with NBC, CBS and BBDO, and Leon Gordon, producer of such feature films as "Mrs. Partington," "The Green Years," "That Forsythe Woman" and others, to Revue Productions, Hollywood, on filmed portion of CBS-TV General Electric Theatre. Harry Zimmerman, formerly with All-Star Revue television series, named by Guild Films Co. as musical director of Frankie Laine Show and Florian ZaBach Show. Hamilton Warren, director, film distribution dept., Filmcraft Productions, Hollywood, to Modern Motion Pictures Service Inc., same city, as tv div. assistant manager. Broadcasting • Telecasting